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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Henry Threadgill record release day!

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t mean the washed out ahistorical sense.

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · 16d

This hits home. I’ve long been mistrustful of moral and political conviction, including for values I cherish. Samantha argues that we live in a time when there’s no path for liberalism as a project without shedding complacency about the need argue for liberal values.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

some remarks on something we've all been feeling: the empty chests of "elite liberals," the hollowness at the heart of their convictions--and what we can do to regain the idea of liberalism as an active force in this chaotic age

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52B...

Why Be a Liberal?

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Aug 29

Urgh

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Jul 24

LLMs are making the internet less secure because they generate false bug reports and overwhelm cybersecurity professionals. Some are halting their bug bounty programs as a result.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Jul 24

AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties

AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties | TechCrunch

"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.

techcrunch.com

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Jul 17

Don’t miss my rock-star co-authors! Happening today!!!!

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤖 At #ICML? Come check out our position poster "Stop treating ‘AGI’ as the north-star goal of AI research", wherein we challenge the “it goes without saying” narrative that AGI is a great goal for AI research. Tomorrow (Thursday the 17th) between 11 and 13:30. I’ll be there with @graziul.bsky.social

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Jul 8

I still blame Starbucks

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · Jun 26

I'll just say this: I find it just as offensive when americans are against people moving to a different city, as I do when they think I'm not allowed in America.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · May 8

Our work deconstructing AGI as a concept is also now a reference in www.aisnakeoil.com/p/agi-is-not....
If you're a podcast person, other coverage includes this podcast from @techpolicypress.bsky.social! www.techpolicy.press/should-agi-r...

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · May 8

Our new work deconstructing the concept of "AGI", led by the brilliant @borhane.bsky.social in collaboration with @graziul.bsky.social , Hananel Hazan, @shiridoshi.bsky.social +more co-authors below, has been accepted to ICML. 🤗 We discuss the many "traps" that... 🧵 1/
arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · May 1

Good news: this will appear in the ICML position paper track!

Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Feb 6

I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees. 🧵

Blili-Hamelin et al. Stop Treating 'AGI' as the north-star goal of AI Research.pdf

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · May 1

Accepted at @icmlconf.bsky.social, position paper track!!!

Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Feb 6

I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees. 🧵

Blili-Hamelin et al. Stop Treating 'AGI' as the north-star goal of AI Research.pdf

bit.ly

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Apr 16

🧑‍🔬 Happy our article on Creating a Generative AI Evaluation Science, led by @weidingerlaura.bsky.social & @rajiinio.bsky.social, is now published by the National Academy of Engineering. =) www.nae.edu/338231/Towar...
Describes how to mature eval so systems can be worthy of trust and safely deployed.

Toward an Evaluation Science for Generative AI Systems

There is an urgent need for a more robust and comprehensive approach to AI evaluation. There is an increasing imperative to anticipate and understand ...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Apr 10

A new paper by D&S’s Jacob Metcalf & Ranjit Singh, & affiliate @borhane.bsky.social, examines how emerging experimental publics are reshaping who gets to evaluate genAI, and how public feedback is being mobilized for safety, accountability, & democratic oversight. knightcolumbia.org/content/expe...

Experimental Publics: Democracy and the Role of Publics in GenAI Evaluation

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · Apr 9

Just published - Experimental Publics: Democracy and the Role of Publics in GenAI Evaluation, by Jacob Metcalf, Ranjit Singh, and @borhane.bsky.social, the second essay written for our AI & Democratic Freedoms symposium (happening tomorrow and Friday!) knightcolumbia.org/content/expe...

Experimental Publics: Democracy and the Role of Publics in GenAI Evaluation

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 25

I’m very confused about why research on LLM consistency and so-called hallucinations seem silo’d off from each other.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Mar 21

We have a little Zine preview on Instagram from “Noisy Joints,” our Critical AI Puppetry Workshop at the Mercury Store (with Emma Wiseman, @camilagalaz.bsky.social, @isilitke.bsky.social) for #worldpuppetryday2025 (themed “Robots, AI and the Dream of the Puppet”).

Shadows hands with noisy hands overlaid, a title reads “Noisy Joints: notes from a Critical AI Puppet Workshop” with a World Puppetry Day sticker.

Shadow hands overlaid with noisy hands: text reads, “Creating AI puppet shadows: Record yourself casting shadows against the noise within an AI model. Generate new hands from your human noise. Let the hands meet.”

A drawing of an AI generated glitch by Camila Galaz. A note: “Infinite Possibility -> Constraint Constraint Constraint. Puppet as glitch / performing the glitch. Plausibility. Who is the director? Who is the audience? Our understanding of the technology = puppeteers (string).” Beneath it: a sketch of data stick figure with an arrow to a stick figure called “self” and a stick figure named “predicted self” with an arrow leading back to data.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Mar 19

Most researchers don’t believe AGI is coming any time soon. But policy makers are steering policy toward AGI anyway. In this article for Tech Policy Press, a look at the distortions the AGI Frame introduces to policymaking. #ai #criticalai #aipolicy In @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Mar 19

New piece in Tech Policy Press builds on the collective work from the “AGI Should Not Be The North Star Goal of AI Research” paper with my own argument — that AGI frames also distort the perspective of policymakers shaping AI regulation.
www.techpolicy.press/most-researc... #aipolicy

Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.

www.techpolicy.press

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 19

Read my other position paper with @struthious.bsky.social and @andrewthesmart.bsky.social arguing definitions of 'AGI' embrace a diverse range of incompatible values and assumptions. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Unsocial Intelligence: An Investigation of the Assumptions of AGI Discourse | Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 19

Listen to @mmitchell.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social, and myself on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast: www.techpolicy.press/should-agi-r...

Should AGI Really Be the Goal of Artificial Intelligence Research? | TechPolicy.Press

A conversation with Eryk Salvaggio, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, and Margaret Mitchell about the efficacy of aiming for artificial general intelligence.

www.techpolicy.press

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you want even more. Read our full position paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689

Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research

The AI research community plays a vital role in shaping the scientific, engineering, and societal goals of AI research. In this position paper, we argue that focusing on the highly contested topic of ...

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 19

Clear thinking about goals matters every bit as much for policy. Eryk makes a crisp, thoughtful case for why that is and what policymakers should instead do. techpolicy.press/most-researc...

Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.

techpolicy.press

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Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social · Mar 19

If that’s not enough, I'm delighted I can now recommend reading this fantastic policy piece by @eryk.bsky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social. As we argue in our recent position paper, ‘AGI’ is unfit for the purpose of clear thinking about the goals of AI research.

Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.

techpolicy.press

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